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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
THE FIRST RAISE.

As predicted in these columns, the con-
solidation of the Baltimore g. Ohio wires
and the Western Union, has been followed
by raise of rates. There is now aSso-
lutely no competition. The Baltimore d
Ohio wires are Western Union wires. Two
thousand employees of the Baltimore 4
Ohio, even, have been notified of their dis.
charge, and in a few days men and women
will be turned out upon the world
places will, doubtless, be filled with peo-
pie more to the liking of the vast, over
shadowing, remorseless, soulless mo-
nopoly which now has the country
in its grasp, and is preparing to con-
troll and buy up congress itself.
The same New York dispatch, this
morning, which announces the discharge
of the Baltimore d Ohio employees, also
makes the significant but, as indicated
above, not unexpected statement that
'the old Baltimore d Ohio rate, of fifteen
cents for ten words from New York to
Chicago, has been raised to fifty cents
That tells the whole story. 1t is only the
beginning. The country is alarmed al
the defiant and menacing position as
sumed by the Western Union monopoly
1t is high time. The moment for action
has arrived. The people look to con-
gress. That body must be urged on
not to destroy the Gould telegraph
monopoly, nor any other private enter.
prise, but to protect the vast
interests of the people and
the country by at once in
auguratipg a postal telegraph system
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
CLEVELAND AT MONTGOMERY

If there is any one event in the life OF
Mr.. Cleveland that demonstrates at once
his honesty of character and purpose and
his ability for the leadership of great
party, it is his speech at Montgomery
yesterday. 1t was brief, but contained a
whole volume of political wisdom, as well
as political tact.
The president realized the fact that he
was addressing an audience in the very
heart of the south, but that his words
would be flashed to the remotest corners
of New England and the far west. The
distinguished speaker intimated to his
auditors that the Vaccinations of those
partisans who seek to aid their ambitious
schemes by engendering hate among a
generous people are fast meeting expos
ure; land yet" said the president, "there
should be insistance on strict adherence
to the settlement which has been made OF
disputed questions"
Here the president was In unison with
the entire south in denouncing demo,
gogues like Blaine, Sherman, and "par
tisans" of that stripe, who have always
fomented mischief against our section
In the same breath he proclaims to the
north, as we'll as the south, that the settle.
ments made by the war must meet with
strict adherence, which the south has
rendered IN good faith, as Mr.. Cleveland
said in his speech.
The presidents Montgomery speech
was such one as can hardly be objected
to by the most extreme southern demo-
crat or the veriest republican in Massa-
chusetts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
GREER COUNTY.

The 100000 acres of grazing lands
known as Greer county, is likely to become
a celebrated law case, before the question
to whom it belongs to is definitely settled
A dispatch from Washington this morn
ing states that Land Commissioner Sparks,
in letter to the secretary of the interior
(Lamar) invoking executive interior
ence in the matter of Greer
county land, State of Texas, wants.
the president to issue a proclama-
ton warning all persons assuming to act
as officers under authority of the state of
Texas, or otherwise, from SELLING, or at
tempting to sell or dispose of any of the
lands lying west of the north fork of Red
river, in the southwestern part of the In
dian Territory, or attempting to exercise
authority over the same"
Commissioner Sparks is also informed
an attempt will be made to classify these
lands as school lands.
Here is pretty kettle of fish for Gov,
ernor Ross and Commissioner Hall to
stew at their leisure. The state of Texas
whether right or wrong-has not only
constructive, but absolute and actual,
possession of Greer county. Possibly, it
may not belong to us, but whether that
is so or not, we have got it
and we propose to hold on to it until put
off by decree from the highest legal
authority in the nation. Texas has de facto
jurisdiction, which may, or may not be
overthrow by the supreme court OF the
United States.
The right, therefore, of the federal
authority, before the question in dispute
is legally decided, to assume Jurisdiction
presumably by military force, is denied
The UnitedStates government has no more
right to step in and nullify Texas author
ity in Greer county, than it has to assume
jurisdiction over the Mexican state OF
Sonora.
Commissioner Sparks had better care
fully consider his position before assuming
a responsibility,that may not be ratified by
the judiciary branch of the federal gov
eminent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27

children, very many of us would have to
suffer for sins we did not commit.
This child is not responsible Tor
its mothers mistakes or misfortune. II
it we're it would be more Godlike, more
Christian, to throw over it the mantle of
charity.
The moral people of this North Texas
community would do well to study the
declarations from the lips of Divinity, on
the hills of Judea, two thousand years ago.
1t was said of the adulteress, "Let him who
is without sin cast the first stone" Let
them also remember that however variant
the conditions of mankind-however ex-
allied in morality one class may be above
another-we are all really in the same
boat, all mortal, and must lie on the same
level at last, none of US occupying more
than six feet four, and, whatever our pre-
tensions in life, eventually must be like
"Imperial Cesar, dead and turned to clay,
Serves to stop hole to keep the wind away.
Let that child go to school; it will be
benefited, and the community in no way
injured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
BUTLER AND THE ANARCHISTS.

The venerable hero of the victories over
the women of New Orleans, has been en-
loving the oblivion to which he is fairly
entitled, and to which the people
of the United States consigned him at
the ballot box in 1884. We were all con-
tent never to hear of him again, and the
country fondly, but vainly, imagined, the
pompous old humbug, tempered with the
influences of advancing age, would never
thrust himself on the attention of the
American people hereafter.
Butler, however, never yet throughout
long life of political fraud, insincerity
and chicanery, lost an opportunity OF
keeping himself before the public eye. 1t
might have been thought since the unfor-
tunate termination of his leadership OF
the socialistic element in the presl,
Dental election of 1884, the willy
old demagogue would not soon
again find another pretext for advertising
himself before the country. The Massa-
chusetts fossil had we'll nigh been for
gotten. None knew and perceived this
better than himself. But, right here, and
on the eve Of another presidential contest
in which the labor movement must cast
about for head, Butler sees his chance
in the situation of the doomed anarchists
to assume the championship of an ele-
ment which he vainly endeavored to use
in 1884 to satisfy his ambition.
As stated in the dispatches this morn,
ing, he has accepted the position of coun'
sci for the condemned assassins. He will
now, of course, pose before the country
as the friend and leader of the socialistic
element, and that section of our popula
ton supposed to be in sympathy with it
In the meantime, and as usual, Butler get:
we'll paid for his services.
The general is welcome to all the money
and fame he can make out of it; but, by
this action, he has lowered himself in pub
lie estimation far beyond what he was be-
| fore-aDd that was low enough, even tC
say nothing of the spoons.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
The Chicago Anarchists.

From the Baltimore Herald.
There is an ominous silence in regard
to the forthcoming execution of the Chr
cago anarchists that may well make The
officials connected with the affair more
anxious than they are willing to admit
1t is said that Judge Gary, inspector
Bonfeld and Chief of Police Ebersold are
not unprepared to be made targets fOi
anarchist bombs, but it is as well that II
should be known at once that the task Of
attempting to rescue the prisoners, or 70 ,
obstruct the course Of Justice, will be 1
very hazardous one. The state militia Will
be called into service on the day oftheeIe
cution, in any event, and 1t is not impos'
sible that small detachment OF regular
troops may be held in reserve in one Oh
the halls or armories of the city.
1t may seem absurd, on first inspection
that such precautions should be necesSs!
simply because seven murderers are TO %
hanged. But a great statesmen once hOV
observed that precautions never seem
unnecessary as when they have pro'euu
entirely successful. There are In the hall
million of people who compose the IsS,
ular population of Chicago, fully my
thousand persons known to be disaitsCle4
lawless aliens, in open and avowed Syu
! pathy with the men now awaiting eXecr
ton, and most of them belonging to oan
bound societies. What these men can O0
is best judged by what they have aon'
But in addition to this alien band OF W
tators, dynamiters and cutthroatS, pasN
are probably thirty thousand strangHs
comprising the floating populatloII
many of them refugees from justice, an'
capable of furnishing very TROUBLESOME
element in civil crisis.
1t will be evident, then, that just as SoOD
as it has been finally settled that the seVen
men are to hang, it will be incumbent Oh
the Chicago authorities to take extraOf
binary precautions against rescue o.
acts of violence ard terrorism. The iesf
ing of the people of Cook county is over,
whelmingly in favor of law and order anu
of bringing the participators in the nay
market massacre to the gaIlows. Bu'
comparatively small body of resolute, de''
perate men can easily carry out reScu
or commit some terrible act of vlolenC
by concerted action. A hundred men
sworn to do or die, could blow down III
biggest Jail wall in the world, and tnsl
are men in the anarchist ranks trained y
bitter experience IN European dungeon
to laugh at death in any shape. -
1t is not demagogues like Most a y.
train that are to be feared, except SO 70
as their speeches may light UP the Ds0 %.
passions of a mob. 1t is rather the siie !,
schemers, who never strike till all Is reau!
and never threaten before they s'riA'
that the law has to look after. "nsn
big bully busters about what he is aO ~
to do there is going to be no hgnS;s ii n
when quiet, stern-eyed man takes Oh LIN; =
coat without speaking, someone Is T.; sUI !
to get hurt. The INHALED Anarchi'''
Chicago are taking their coats OIL
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
Mayor Hewitt Talks about Henry
Georgeism.

often wonder that some of the news
papers have not awoke to the fact that
the theories of Henry George have been
put to practical test. He is in favor of
paternal government, and this form of
government was tried in the Roman
empire in the third and fourth centuries.
At that time the state regulated all the
industries over the whole Roman empire.
The experiment was tried upon 100000
900 or 4O0,O00,000 people. Everything
worked very we'll in the third century, but
in the fourth century the people were
starving. The people of the Roman
empire realized that they were compelled
to work for the state, and they did as
little work as they could, and finally
stopped working altogether. The govern
ment at that time decreed that certain
men should work at certain trades, and at
no other. AS soon as these men died, their
places were filled by their children.
The state, which was in reality the en-
peror and a chosen few around him, di-
vided the trades and other industries into
divisions. Over these divisions there
were chiefs. These divisions were again
divided, and each subdivision had its
Shlol' IeopOIuS WeEe uldu6 W Jn6 buldlleT
chiefs, and by them to the higher ones,
and step by step until the reports reached
the emperor himself. In the fourth CEN
fury, when the emperor found that the peo-
pie would not work, he cut the heads off
hundreds of them in order to show them
that they were compelled to work for the
state. This led to the fall of the Roman
empire.
Paternal government means despotism,
and with despotism comes decadence.
When government interferes with pri-
vate enterprise or business, personal lib
erty is endangered, and where there is no
personal liberty there is no happiness OF
contentment. There should be no legisla.
tive interference between capital and
labor. think political parties make a
mistake in endeavoring to secure the sup
port of labor by promising legislation in
favor of labor as against capital. Legis-
lation should be for the whole people and
not for any particular class. If capital is
bound up by legislation so that it cannot
work, capital will close its doors and labor
will starve. The more individual labor
there is, the more happiness there will be-
There should be an equal chance fol
everybody to make living and com
petence without interference from the
state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE.

In the Atlanta speech Grover Cleveland
shone forth Respondent as the true man
and American citizen he is. An extract
from that speech is as follows: 'You
welcome me as your president. l am en-
trusted with the immediate execution of
that high Office, but beg you not to for
get tonight that every one of you has a
responsibility connected with this high
Office and every branch of your govern
ment. Our government is such that it
needs the constant watchfulness of the
people. It needs their support. 1t needs
their loyalty. l am delighted tonight
that this parting demonstration should be
upon the part of the young men of At
lanta and of the state of Georgia. On
You, my friends, will rest, in the future,
the preservation and protection of this
government of ours-of the people, for
the people, and by the people. My parting
words to you shall be: Let your political
action be guided by thoughtfulness of
what this government means, and the pur-
pose for which it was instituted. Be not
carried away by any enthusiasm, but,
guided by loyalty and chastened by a
sense of your responsibility, cherish your
American citizenship. With these, and
only with these, are American institutions
and American liberty safe"
The presidential Office he does not re-
gard as "the be all and end all" in the shape
of an American idea of government. Each
citizen has, as put in that speech, "a re-
sponsibility connected with that high
Office" Each citizen contributes his part
in the selection of the occupant of that
loft position now filled by Grover Cleve-
land, and each citizen has the right to cri-
ticize and demand an account of that
official of his stewardship, and, to the end
that such right might not be abused, but
be used to the best interest of the nation,
the present incumbent of the presidential
office, voices this warning admoni-
ton, comprehensive in terms, but
capable of expansion, and a
detailed specification that would embody
the whole duty pointed out-"be guided
by loyalty and chastened by sense of
your responsibility, cherish your American
citizenship. With these, and only with
these, are American institutions and
American liberty SAFE" With such a
conception of his position, his duty and
the rights and obligations of the people
at whose head he stands, little wonder is
it that Cleveland is making the unexam-
pied excellent president he is.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
A Buslness-llke Offer.

For many years the manufacturers of
DR.. Sage's Catsrrh Remedy have offered,
in good faith, $500 reward for case of
Nasal Catarrh which they cannot cure.
The Remedy is sold by druggists at only
SO cents. This wonderful remedy has
fairly attained a worldwide reputation.
If you have dull, heavy headache, OBJ
struction of the nasal passages, dis
charges falling from the head into the
throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and
acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody and putrid; if the eyes
are weak, watery and infamed; if there is
ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or
coughing to clear the throat, expectora-
ton of offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice being changed
and has nasal twang; the breath
offensive; smell and taste impaired; sensa-
ton of dizziness, with mental depression,
hacking cough and general debility, you
are suffering from nasal catarrh. The
more complicated your disease, the
greater the number and diversity of
symptoms. Thousands of cases annu.
ally, without manifesting half of the above
symptoms, result in consumption, and
end in the grave. No disease is so COM
mon, more deceptive and dangerous, or
less understood, or more unsuccessfully
treated by physicians.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
LYNCH LAW IN INDIANA.

The lynching of Amer Green, the
abductor and murderer, by an Indiana
mob yesterday, is suggestive of the grow
ing popular distrust in the courts. Green
was desperate criminal and had abducted
a farmers daughter, who, as she was never
heard of afterwards, is is supposed to
have been murdered. He escaped, and
was captured in this state some time ago
and sent back to the scene of his crimes
The lawyers were on the eve of getting
change of vepue-which means getting
rid of the witnesses. The citizens, fore
seeing an acquittal of so dangerous a
character, and not liking the idea of again
being bothered with him, organized a
mob, attacked the Jail and suspended
Green to limb. Had these citizens entire
confidence in the courts, Green would not
have been touched by the hands, of the
mob.
Not only in Indiana are the peo-
pie losing confidence in the courts, as
dispensers of criminal justice, but it is a
common thing throughout the country.
This is abundantly proven by statistics.
In fact these show that Judge Lynch not
only does larger, but more effective,
business in furnishing the higher crimes
than the regularly constituted courts. In
the year 1886, in which 1900 people were
murdered in the United States, there were
only SO legal executions-5 of which
were in Texas. But during the same
period there were 1873 lynchings, of
which II were in Texas. This record of
Judge Lynch beats the district and crimi-
nal courts very decidedly, whilst it is a
terrible travesty and rebuke upon the
ordinary administration of criminal JUS
tice. There are great many people
throughout the country who are like the
Indiana mob, afraid to trust desperadoes
to the courts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27

as prodigious,as ubiquitous, more power
full than Gould himself. We are aware the
postal telegraph is not exactly in conso-
nance with the fundamental principles of
democracy. But circumstances alter
cases. After all, it is not much more a
measure of GENERALIZATION than the post
office department, and now, evidently,
affords the only chance of protecting
ourselves against the Entertainments OF
powerful, relentless and growing mo-
nopoly. 1t is one of two evils, whose
adoption seems the wisest at this juncture'
The rates shave been raised from 10 to
so cents" We shall probably see greater
advances than that in very short time,
and the country will have to stand the
racket.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
Hoods S0Ts0p01izlo
Slavery in Morocco.
ON the London News.

From the London News.
We often visited the slave market nl,,
is, think, the most interesting s;oh a''
Morocco, writes correspondent n
had all of US read the fearful accom-,
which the press of Tangier is SO fonS
repeating, of the terrible doings of s,.
cry in Morocco, and, I must confess ~.
most pleasantly surprised. We Wan,
very often to the market, but neye, a.
such sights as children separated IN"
their parents, though we saw both s0r
together in the slot" Nor did wa =.
many other things of which we have ,sss.
in fact, the slaves wore wonderfuly nm
tented, even cheerful expression, vhNs
the sale was proceeding. We were mncb
amused at watching one young lady-vho
by the way, was rather handsome-alts,
her exposition from sulkiness when an
old Moor was looking at her to cheer.
fulness when handsome young man
began his inspection. So there is coypese
even in the wild deserts from which these
slaves come; in fact, far from being
painful sight-for by the accounts Wa
have of those who have seen it before
they all left with our eyes full of
we found it rather amusing than otbsl.
wise, and l do not know that we are mo-,
hard hearted than generality of man
kind. This l will say, that I vOu5
far rather be slave in Ma
rocco than peasant. From what, too
saw of slaves out OF the market, they An
pear not to have such bad time of L.
and, in many houses, enjoy more liberty
than the paid servants. Of course there
is truth in many of the fearful stories we
hear of i'll treatments but, again, l know
an old Moor on whose death all the prop
erty goes by will to his slaves. 1t is not
slavery that is so bad; it is the kidnapping
that slavery necessitates, and the terrible
long journey over the scorching desertbut
of course, to put down this kidnapping
we must aim at slavery direct. The mar
ket is mostly supplied from the Soudan-
not the "Soudan" as we call Nubia, but
Soudap that lies south of the Sahara and
east of Senegambia, an enormous district
of sand-but it is not at all an uncom-
mon sight to see white slaves in the mar
ket-Moors and Arabs. The prices
average about e3 to e5 a head for all
varities, though we saw one elderly fe-
male knocked down for about 22s, much
to her own disgust.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
OVER RIGHTEOUS.

The reported presentation to Superin-
tendent Cooper of the question of the
right of the child of an outcast woman to
attend the public schools opens up a
peculiar phase of the pharisaism, the
hypocrisy, and the hollow and tinsel
morality of modern society. The ques-
ton seems to have been raised by north
Texas community, whose self,righteous-
ness evidently exceeds its sentiments of
charity and sense of right and justice.
Why should this child be excluded from
the benefits of our free school system
What crime has it committed against the
state, society or humanity? Is the
child to be held responsible, or branded
with disgrace,a and forfeit its rights because
of the misdeeds of its parents? If such
sins are to be visited upon the heads of the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
TREE PLANTING IN TEXAS.

Elsewhere in this issue will be found a
notice of a meeting to be held in Dallas,
on the goth of this month, for the pur-
pose of taking steps looking to the Or
ganization of state forestry society,
such a society to have for its object the
preservation of existing forests, and the
systematic and general planting of trees
over the state. Science has demonstrated
that trees in any abundance, by means of
holding and giving forth moisture,
checking winds and other meteorolog-
ical causes, are rain generators,
or the means of precipitating rains.
Drouth-stricken Texas, then, should
fringe her lands and cover her prairies
with trees. object of the meeting is
most excellent, and the solicitous atten-
ton of the state administration is earn
estly called to it, in the hope that some
thing definite at once may be ac-
complished. AS an initial step,
the governor might designate, at
this time, an Arbor Day for, Texas
for one such day in the year. universally
and earnestly given to tree planting
would do much in the direction indicated
But the society has big state to shade
and, to accomplish such work, all the
means possible should be availed of. Lei
the meeting at Dallas be a large and rep
resentative one, that an earnest of success
may mark the inception of the movement